Review article

The Effectiveness of Environmental Management in a Metallurgical Company’s Sustainable Development

R. Wieszała ; The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Poland
B. Gajdzik ; The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy Poland

Abstract

In the article metallurgy enterprises are being characterised, taking into account, in particular, the environmental management systems as well as the effects of their introduction, on the example of Ferrum SA. In the first part of the article the environmental management system and the applied production technologies in metallurgy enterprises are characterised. In the second part the effects of environmental management systems introduction are presented, based on the published environment reports of the enterprise in the years 1990-2007. In the last part the attention was turned to the future aspects connected with the development of environmental management systems. The issue was summarised in the end.

Keywords

cleaner production strategy; environmental management system; metallurgical company

Hrčak ID:

57447

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/57447

Publication date:

1.10.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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